Describe incidental learning and its challenges for students with visual impairments
What will be an ideal response?
From nearly the moment they are born, children with good vision begin to learn through their visual sense, organizing, synthesizing, and giving meaning to their perceptions of the environment. This ability is termed "incidental learning" because it refers to learning that happens in an unplanned way or in subordinate conjunction with something else (i.e., with little or no direct instruction). Children with good vision learn many things by seeing things happen (such as the way they learn the concept of down by repeatedly dropping objects) and by seeing differences in similar objects (such as the many variations of the concept of table). This is problematic for children with visual impairments, so they need other forms of instruction to give them access to the many things that others learn incidentally. They need opportunities to explore the environment through tactile means and to be given access to the many different forms an object (like a table) can take so they can learn the critical attributes that link an object with what it is called
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